samurainess

English

Etymology

samurai +‎ -ness

Noun

samurainess (uncountable)

1. (uncommon) The state or characteristic of being a samurai.
   • 1993, Winston L. King, Zen and the Way of the Sword: Arming the Samurai Psyche, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 227:

     the present worker-company bond is therefore to be seen as a contrived rather than a cultural or hereditary "samurainess." There is also much in the political domain to remind one of the samurai era.

   • 1996, P. Abelsen, Irony and Purity: Mishima: I. A Puzzling Event at Ichigaya Garrison 1, in Modern Asian Studies:

     Which is absent from Mishima's samurainess. The purity in his work does go hand in hand with selflessness, but this as oblivion of the ego rather than self-effacement.

   • 2000, E. von Mueller, Naked Swords: The Zen Warrior Tradition and the Intertextual Odyssey of the Nameless Ronin in" Seven Samurai," Yojimbo," and" Sanjuro", in Post Script:

     Freed of the feudal baggage of the samurai caste system, the outlaw ronin fumbles towards a samurainess (if so grotesque a neologism can be borne) not restricted to or built on any […]

   • 2020 October 26, Michael Daliot-Bul, Nissim Otmazgin, The Anime Boom in the United States: Lessons for Global Creative Industries, BRILL, →ISBN, page 134:

     From a Japanese point of view, the notion of a black Samurai [...] calls into question the meaning of Japaneseness [...]. From an African American perspective, the "samurainess" of Afro may provide him with the irresistible odds needed to fight the world. From a different, perhaps global, perspective, the fusion of a samurai and an African American in a transcultural production […]